I don't know well (exactly) why, but I said hesitatingly "it's alright".

Comments:

Spoiler:

I'm puzzled by that ので there. To me it would make more sense if that was a が/けど. Maybe I'm just getting the first part wrong (the second part I think I got it right). Anyway, I just wrote what I could understand.

I agree with you.
どうしていいか分からなかったので、躊躇いがちに「まあまあだよ」と答えました。
is easier to search. we hardly use 躊躇いがち though.(means NOT using 漢字).That is also one of the reasons why books for child are not so easy.(in my thought)

Last edited by coco on Thu 03.23.2006 11:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Actually, for the ためらい, the hiragana is easier to look up in my dictionary than the kanji. But for that first part, I was thinking some of the earlier posters would have been helped by having kanji because then they could separate the string of hiragana into its separate words. They seemed to have the most difficulty with that part, especially if they read the vocab spoiler...

That said, I hope that adding the kanji doesn't make it too easy. And I agree that kids books are difficult because they've got long strings of hiragana that many of us can't separate easily. I'm reading about 鶴の恩返し and I wish it had more kanji.

Having some trouble with the "ためらいがちに"-part. I know what it means, i just don't know what the "がち" does.
Also, the very beginning, the "どうしていいか", im not quite clear on. Someone care to help?
(By the way, do i have to apply for this again, since im not on the list in the first post by coco?)